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Over on Facebook, there was a post about how nice people are in registered Hereford business. I am thinking they must have not been in the game very long to talk that way. For those who have been around registered cattle of any breed, we are well aware of shady dealings. The thing to remember...

Wh The problem is that we all don't operate in the same environment. A cow that does well in a low input environment will blow up on good feed and a cow that is accustomed to living high on the hog will starve in the desert.

Could you share the pedigree?

She looks like Bonsma's example of what not to breed.

I have a good friend runs several hundred purebred cows, collects all the data, has a grow safe on his place. He told me that over the past twenty years the EPD's have gone up but the weaning weights have stayed the same. I personally don't use EPD's because it is simply impossible to have an...

Getting back to the production sale, there also needs to be a talk about how things are handled if the sale doesn’t go as well as you would like. Don’t ruin the market for bulls by selling them for less than it cost to produce them. I would also think hard about not selling bulls that pass...

My preference is a physical catalog. Although the catalog needs to get there in time for the sale. It is more than a little frustrating to get a catalog in the mail the day after a sale. But there is no substitute for phone calls.

How much can a person really be hurt by buying the cheapest cows around? Far more people are hurt going to registered sales paying elevated prices for fancy high “breeding value” cattle that don’t have to rough it.

In New Zealand, most dairies milk seasonally and produce milk powder. They generally AI to dairy bulls at the start of the season and then turn out short gestation bulls to get the cows to freshen a couple of weeks early. They are obviously not marked the same as an angus cross hereford.

Short gestation Polled Hereford bulls are used on a lot of New Zealand dairies. The calves are white faced and spotted.

Much of the hostility against Mr. Allison seems to revolve around the idea that half corriente calves are inferior to straight angus calves. Where is the evidence that this is the case? I could very easily see that a calf raised on a lower milking cow having more capacity for gain than a high...

At this point, I don’t know what the difference is between the generic modern “Hereford” and a black Hereford. MSUD had its origins with the polled shorthorn and it is an open secret that Trust was an eighth red angus. The biggest issue, I see with the Black Hereford is that it takes a long...

How is Warren deceiving anybody? I never saw anything about him claiming that those calves were purebreds.

How black calves with no brands all look the same.

At some point, there is a transition from a composite which has a high level of heterozygosity, retained hybrid vigor and inconsistency; too a new breed that is more homozygous, lacks hybrid vigor and breeds consistent. The original thought behind composite cattle was to constantly breed up...

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I sat through a talk on genomics and the presenter said that genomics only work within a population. For example, she said that the Angus test they were selling wouldn’t work with for a New Zealand Angus. It is my view that EPDs and EBVs are outdated technologies. Relics from when computer...

What the article is referring to is the British polled Hereford which used the Galloway to introduce the polled gene. The American Polled Hereford had its origins when Warren Gammon advertised looking for naturally hornless Herefords. He found around 14 animals and built the Polled Hereford...

We fall calve but I leave the bull in until weaning time. Anything that gets bred back late will be sold as a pair and I will buy back an open cow from up north to replace her. Even if she doesn’t get bred an open cow will gain a few hundred pounds and the market price will for butcher cows will...

The red hide discount does exist, when we would take 3/4 Hereford 1/4 Angus calves to the sale barn and they would sell the calves by hide color. The half that were black hided sold for more than the same calves that were red hided. The worst part of the deal is that the discount for having...